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Bob the big blue blob
jawapro
Mon 12/03/2007 11:00 AM


Meet Bob!

 
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Meet Bob the Big Blue Blob.

More about him later.

Mum and Dad came through today and had a look at my washing machine - cause it had died. Well - turns out that it mostly worked when they were watching (figures) but it still leaked - so we decided to replace it.

So now I have a new Washing Machine.

 
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Dad also put my TV antenna up on the roof - but alas we still cant pick up TDT. I got TDT briefly when I put the arial in the tree (see earlier post) but then it stopped working again.

Anyway - at least it´s out of the tree now.

And back to Bob.

I went to the Exeter market today - and bought a few pieces of junk. And along with it - I hired Bob the big blue blob to act as a security guard to protect my place. I saw him hanging from a table at the market - and he was too cool to just leave him there. (yes Mum, I know I´m a sad case...)

 
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And believe me - he can be a scary dude if you try and sneek in...

 
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On the boat to Melbourne
jawapro
Wed 07/03/2007 11:00 AM

 
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Well - I´m on my way to Melbourne again.

And this time I have a laptop and wireless card to see how far out to sea the connection works.

Should be interesting - and the captain just announced that the sailing might be rough.

Hope I dont get seasick...

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Update - Its now almost 11 at nignt - and I still can access the net. Its pretty flakey though - and keeps disonnecting.

And the boat is rocking a little - but not too bad at all.

Which is good - cause I had a pretty big tea. You seem to pay the same price no matter how much you stack it - so you might as well make it worth while :)


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OCR Blues
jawapro
Tue 06/03/2007 11:00 AM


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Help - We saved a document - but now we cant find it.

Thats the phone call I got a day or two back. I had a look - but although they claim to have saved the document, it´s completely vanished.

They have a printed copy, and think that´ll be enough - but I happen to be foolish enough to mention that we could probably scan them in using an OCR program so they can edit the text again.

Well - today they decided to take me up on it.

So I had a look around all the free and open source OCR programs I could find - and they all sucked.

Some had about a 50% success rate for converting the scanned document back into text. Some were far less than that.

And then I stumbled across this site that told me that the answer was right under my nose.

Microsoft Office comes with its own OCR program - and compared to the free ones - it totally kicks butt!

If you have Office installed, go Start->Office->Microsoft Office Tools->Microsoft Office Document Scanning

It´ll scan the image, and then find the text in it. You can then click ´Tools->Copy to Word´ and it´ll go and plonk the text straight into a new Word document.

Much better than any of the free ones I found. Only a couple of typos to fix and some formating - it´s great!

Just thought I´d let everyone know in case you ever find yourself in a similar situation.


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Shocking...
jawapro
Mon 05/03/2007 11:00 AM

 
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Yet another of my many ebay purchases. These remote control tanks are shockingly fun.

When your tank gets hit, your controler zaps you. Sort of like grabing an electric fence.

I took them down to church camp on the weekend and convinced most of my friends to have a go with them. Of course, most of the time I didnt warn them that they shocked you.

The controlers have been thrown away so many times that one is starting to show some damage - but they still work fine.

So come and challenge me to a duel of the remote control tanks - if you dare!


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Small update
jawapro
Tue 27/02/2007 11:00 AM


I have just updated my website so it now emails me when someone leaves a comment. That way I know when someone leaves a comment at one of my blogs.
Currently I´ve been relying on noticing it manually - which is fine for the newest posts, but the older ones sometimes escaped my notice. Shouldnt be a problem now. Email me if you have any issues though.


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